Anthony Hungerford

, Son of Anth. Hungerford of Dewne-Ampu [•] y in Gloucestershire, by Bridget his Wife, Daughter of one Shelley a Judge, was educated in this University (with other R. Catholicks,) but for a short time, for his Father being much troubled with the incumbrance [•] of his Estate, and therefore could not well look after the Son, the Mother, who was a zealous Papist, caused him to be trained up in her Religion from his Childhood. So that carrying his opinion on till 1584. about which time he had left Oxon, being then 20 years of age, stagger’d somewhat in his opinion upon the reading of Capians book called Decem rationes, wherein he found some undecent passages, but confirmed in his mind soon after by Mr. Tho. Neale of Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and at length totally setled by one Twiford a Priest or Jesuit, who was brought to him by George Etheridge a Physician of Oxon. In this setled course he held on till the beginning of the year 1588. at which time it pleased God (as he said) to make a hand that had given the wound, the means to make good the cure, when it aimed at a further mischief, being occasioned mostly from certain words unwarily dropt from one Hopton a Priest, and his acquaintance, concerning an invasion then about to be made, for the relief chiefly of Rom. Catholicks, who laid under the heavy hand (as they said) of Q. Elizabeth. In 1594. one of both his names was actually created Master of Arts, and ’tis supposed that he was the person, because he had formerly spent some time in this University. In 1607. he received the honour of Knighthood, and about that time, (being then of Blackbourton near Witney in Oxfordshire,) wrote,

The advice of a Son professing the Religion established in the present Church of England to his dear Mother a Rom. Catholick. Oxon. 1639. qu. Which book lying by him till his death, and several years after in his Cabinet, his Son Sir Edw. Hungerford carried it at length (upon a sight, as he thought, of the increase of Popery in England) to one of the Chaplains of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to have it licensed, an. 1635. but he refusing so to do, because there (*)(*) See in [〈…〉] &c. were several offensive passages in it against the Papists, he therefore got it to be printed at Oxon, and added to it another thing of his Fathers writing, intit.

The memorial of a Father to his dear Children, containing an acknowledgment of God’s great mercy, in bringing him to the profession of the true Religion, at this present established in the Church of England.—Finished and compleated for the Press at Blackbourton, in Apr. 1627. This person who hath written other matters of the like nature, but not printed, gave way to fate about the latter end of June in sixteen hundred twenty and seven, 1627 and was buried in the Church at Blackbourton. He left behind him Issue, by his Wife Lucy, Daughter of Sir Walt. Hungerford of Farley Castle in Somersetshire, Sir Edward Hungerford, who had Issue another Edward, made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. who most unworthily squander’d away the Estate of his Ancestors.